Thursday, 04 March 2021_A Doña Ana County Detention Center officer facing termination for declining a COVID -19 vaccination is suing county manager Fernando Macias and detention center officials over the mandate.
Monday, 01 March 2021_The total number of COVID -19 cases in the United States surpassed 28.6 million with over 513,000 deaths on Sunday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
Saturday, 27 February 2021_Across South Korea vaccination against COVID -19 began with more than 5,000 nursing home residents and care providers scheduled to get their jabs by the end of the day.
Saturday, 27 February 2021_Rome's Association of Palestinians called a sit-in in the vicinity of the Italian parliament to draw attention on Israel’s COVID -19 vaccine programme which excludes the nearly five million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, under Israeli military occupation.
Monday, 22 February 2021 _The United States faces a dark milestone this week as it prepares to mark a staggering half-million COVID -19 deaths, with President Joe Biden planning to memorialize the lives lost.
Monday, 22 February 2021_Iran’s COVIran Barekat, the first domestically-developed COVID -19 vaccine in the country, has showed 90-percent effectiveness, according the first phase of human trials of the inoculation.
Sunday, 21 February 2021 _The cargo plane carrying a shipment of China's Sinovac COVID -19 vaccines arrived at Mexico City International Airport (AICM) on Saturday.
Friday, 19 February 2021_The Israeli regime has allowed a small shipment of Sputnik V vaccines to reach the Gaza Strip after coming under heavy pressure by human rights organizations. Tel-Aviv keeps the impoverished enclave under a tight blockade since 2007, hampering efforts by local authorities to fight the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
Friday, 19 February 2021_Venezuela started immunizing health care workers against the coronavirus Thursday with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, as the government said it intended to inoculate 70 percent of the population by year end.
Thursday, 18 February 2021_The European Commission has launched a new strategy designed to combat the new mutations of the coronavirus. The move comes amid mounting criticism of the bloc's slow vaccination program.
Tuesday, 16 February 2021_Head of the Scientific Committee of the National Coronavirus Campaign Headquarters Mostafa Ghanei says different types of Iranian made vaccines will be produced in September.
Sunday, 14 February 2021_Cypriot police used water cannon and tear gas in rare clashes with protesters as hundreds demonstrated on Saturday against government corruption and coronavirus restrictions.
Tuesday, 09 February 2021_A Pentagon watchdog is blaming commanders of aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt for the spread of the coronavirus among the crew.
Iran has imported the first consignment of Russian COVID -19 vaccines from Moscow after the cure’s remarkable rate of efficacy was verified by domestic authorities.
COVID -19 vaccine nationalism is harmful for all, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday, and said weak cooperation between nations is a major barrier to achieving worldwide vaccination at the scale needed to end the coronavirus pandemic.
Monday, 01 February 2021 _ COVID -19 infections are falling more slowly in the UK's most deprived areas and the government is not doing enough to minimize the impact of the pandemic in those areas.
Monday, 01 February 2021_The mayor of New York City has acknowledged that Black and Latino residents are receiving COVID -19 vaccines at far lower rates than other groups, highlighting widespread racial disparity and discrimination in particular against African Americans in the United States.
Saturday, 30 January 2021_The head of the production team of the Iranian coronavirus vaccine at the Headquarters for Executing the Order of Imam Khomeini says the vaccine, dubbed Coviran Barekat, works against the British variant of COVID -19.